But Really...This is How He Met Her

And so, we now embark of the end of the world of How I Met Your Mother. The mother was shown to us at the finale of the last season, and we now begin to see what really happened, and how Ted met the kids' mother.

Last night was the big premiere...and I missed it. After the newscast last night, I had to go grocery shopping and missed it. HOWEVER, I will be watching it tonight. I have my ways. And I will be recapping and gushing my thoughts on it afterward. Be prepared, friends!

~Tonico

Hiatus

I dread the word. A hiatus is a thing all TV show fans hate, whether it be a week or two of no new episodes, or the break between one season and another. Regardless, they suck. And most of us have been right in the middle of a bunch right now. Luckily, the seasons will begin soon and we can get back to our shows.
These are some of the shows I'm looking forward to watching/blogging about and a little recap on what we saw last...

Sundays

• Once Upon a Time - So, Henry had just be taken away by the evil humans into the portal in the water, everyone thinks Neil/Bae is dead, Rumple left Belle behind to find his grandson while keeping her and the town safe because he wants to BE A BETTER MAN and finally take care of his family, Captain Eyeliner, Evil Regal, and the Charmings climbed aboard the Jolly Roger to follow the evils to Neverland to take on Peter Pan. Oh, and I hear a little mermaid is making her way to Storybrook's shores...

Mondays

• How I Met Your Mother - We know who the mother is now...or what she looks like at least. I'm not as interested in her story as I am in the gang getting into their usual shenanigans. And I truly find Barney and Robin's relationship wonderful and awkward.

Thursdays

• Once Upon a Time in Wonderland *NEW* I don't even know what to say, but if Once Upon a Time is good, then I'm sure this spin off will be, too. Bring it on.

• Glee - BLAINE HAD A RINGBOX BEHIND HIS BACK. It's the last thing we see. Seriously!? But there is the whole thing with the death of Cory Monteith. Terrible, terrible thing. I'm very curious how they are going to write that into the show. And the whole Demi Lovato joining the cast for a spin. We shall see, eh?

• The Big Bang Theory - I love intelligent comedy. Let's see, we left off with Leonard leaving for a big science-y voyage again. Penny and Leonard are back together, Sheldon and Amy are...whatever they are. Oh! And Raj can talk to girls now. Let the hilarity ensue!

Then you have the shows that we still have a while to wait on.

• Game of Thrones - March. Man, that show is so messed up. Pain, I'm telling you. We'll talk closer to premiere time...

• Doctor Who - November...which I have to wait until after airing and watch it online later... JOHN HURT. What? I don't even understand where he's supposed to fit in the timeline. Clara...meh. I'm not a total fan of the show being all about the Companion since Moffat took over, but I can handle her a lot better than Amy... And I KNOW Matt Smith isn't quite done yet, but PETER CAPALDI.

*Not my pictures or GIFs...not that talented.*

Possible Adopt-A-Blog Candidates

These are blogs I am considering for my Adopt-A-Blog project. They're all movie/TV review/recap blogs that I could learn a thing or two from!

1. Film Intel
2. Cinematic Corner
3. Early Bird Film Society
4. Large Popcorn, No Butter

We're the Millers

Lately, I've been hearing all this buzz about the movie We're the Millers all over the place: Facebook, Twitter, word of mouth. Some of my aquaintences have been talking about how they're going to see it for the second and third time, and that it is simply hilarious.
So, one day I got to leave work before the late hours of the night, I pulled my fiancé along to my favorite movie theater to see this terribly funny movie.

(We're the Millers Movie Trailer)

imdb.com

Now, though I will admit, I had a few laughs, I believe this movie is vastly overrated.

It's a tale of a drug dealer, played by Jason Sudeikis, who gets roped into becoming a drug smuggler by his jerk boss. No choice. He happens upon the idea to bring together a fake family for him to travel with so him crossing the border from Mexico doesn't seem so suspicious. He and his "family," which is composed of a stripper, a runaway, and a sheltered kid that lives in his apartment building, get aboard a flashy RV and embark on a journey to bring drugs to America.

Mostly, it's what you'd expect it to be. The only thing that really surprised me was that they got to the drug keepers place and black fairly quickly. Kudos for that. The movie makers used the rest of the time to allow the family to get into all types of trouble.

*Spoiler Alert*

The Millers run into another family in the line to get back to America. It reminded me a lot of the movie RV, with Robin Williams, taking his family on a family vacation in an RV. Given, that storyline wasn't a part of a major drug smuggle, but a lot was similar. Characters: Man, woman, girl, boy, there was the other family in their RV that was almost obsessed with becoming friends, there was the RV mechanics issues that made the families have to stop overnight and be forced to bond. I guess you can't really come up with all that much new stuff for a movie set inside a moving vehicle.

Also, there was the issue of the drug dealer chasing the Millers, and the fact that the RV was STUFFED with drugs. Impossibly so. Then throw in the fact that Sudeikis's boss decides to give him a deadline to bring in the product.

The movie was entertaining, and I did laugh. But, like I said before, this movie has been vastly overrated. Everything has been done before (except maybe Jennifer Aniston's strip tease in the car shop) which made the movie pretty predictable. Now, Roberts and Anniston's characters--playing mom and sister-- were teaching Poulter's character--playing brother-- how to kiss, was new, however, them getting caught? Predictable.

I did like "Nawmsayin," a.k.a. Scotty P. He was ridiculous.

So all in all, I liked the movie, but it was nothing special.

And that's my take on We're the Millers: funny, but not hilarious.
Your opinion? Let's chat: Comment!
~Tonico

GIFs not mine :(
River: http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6aw2fhUbK1r8058ko1_250.gif
Millers: http://24.media.tumblr.com/e0d242dd9b5ccd679fcfa4b865fb61b3/tumblr_mr4nwccSGe1srh411o1_500.gif

Blog Review: This Girl's Food

This is the part where I review a blog that's been around a lot longer than me, and knows what they're doing as opposed to be me being a beginner. Ah, well, let's have a go.

This Girl's Food

The photo to the right is an entry from her blog...and it looks absolutely delicious. I really just want to take all the recipes on this blog and spend a day making each and every one of them, even the ones with nuts(which I hate). Someone would eat them!

One thing I really like about this blog is that she has something to the side that has every genre of recipe she has (i.e. desserts, appetizers, breakfasts, etc.) so you can get right to the recipes you want instead of just having to scroll anything you've seen in the past. (right)


The weakness I find is that there is a lot of family talk and pictures in her recipe posts. As a new follower, I'm more interested in the recipes and foods, not her family holidays and outings before the description of the food. I'd prefer less family pictures and more food pictures, but that's not for me to decide. It's her blog, so of course she wants to blog about her family that she's so proud of.

I might, too, but as a human, I'm selfish and don't care about anyone but myself. (That's a total exaggeration. I do care. But you get my point.) I tend to scroll past the family photos and go straight to the food photos and recipes. Yum!


All in all, this is a blog I would recommend, if only for the photos of the food. Beware! They will make you hungry.


(All these photos are snapshots of her blog!)



~Tonico

10 Other Blogs

Here are 10 Other Blogs from my area and elsewhere that I have found something interesting in. An assignment, but also blogs I do/will read.

1) The Shades of Pink
A woman doing book reviews, living life, talking about her faith, sharing photos... Also making some custom comics to illustrate.

2) iROK Radio
An Oklahoma podcast/internet radio playing Oklahoma artists of any genre. I love music and it's great to hear the talent that comes up from right around the corner!

3) This Girl's Food
A blog with foods, and pictures, and recipes, and everything looks delicious...
I'm drooling.
There are the family photos here and there, but the food looks wonderful, and as a future wife, I gotta learn how to cook!

4) Girl Town
It's almost like an blog-style online magazine. There are entires on DIYs, Relationship, Health, Entertainment, Beauty... Anything you want from a magazine.

5) DIY Adventurer
A woman passing her time with creativity. Wish I had the patience for such things. I love DIYs.

6) Writing, Reading, and Eating
'Nuff said. More food and creativity.

7) BuzzFeed
I love BuzzFeed. Love it. I have the app.

8) Laughing Squid
Entertainment, pop culture, all the goods.

9) Madame Bookworm
A woman who blogs about BOOKS. I need more to read.

10) Bleeding Cool
Pretty much a site for nerds to geek out about interviews, spoilers, and other news on their favorites. I'm in.